22 04, 2018

Fathers: Protect Your Children Spiritually

By |2018-04-22T12:59:33+00:00April 22nd, 2018|Theology|

What is Transferred in the Generational Line One of the most amazing things about the God of the New and Old Testament is how He deals with families. Although women are frequently holier than their husbands, God has chosen—already found in the first book of the Bible—the generational blessing to be transferred from the husband through the boys of his family and so on. Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.—Genesis 27:38 We long for our father's blessing, but we often only receive his negligence or bad habits. Nowadays, [...]

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17 04, 2018

Where is the Ark of the Covenant?

By |2018-04-18T01:43:12+00:00April 17th, 2018|Theology|

About 1700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, so he was brought from Israel to Egypt. But due to Joseph's supernatural ability to interpret Pharaoh’s prophetic dreams, the Pharaoh raised him to Prime Minister of Egypt:  Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you." And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”—Gen 41:39-41. Notice [...]

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11 03, 2018

Mary’s Trust in Crisis

By |2019-04-05T04:20:21+00:00March 11th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Mary is the Heavenly Jerusalem even on earth at the cross, so we'll consider the virtue that helps frees us from Satan's bonds even before heaven. This sermon was given on Laetare Sunday, 2018. (I'll be away from the parish next week so there will be no podcast next week. In two weeks you'll hopefully have both a new sermon and Heresy Class 3.)

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2 02, 2018

Candlemas Sermon

By |2019-04-05T04:24:09+00:00February 2nd, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This sermon was given on the feast of the Purification, 2018. Please note that my sermons for the next month will be very short, due to fundraising events in this diocese that will take place prior to Holy Mass. Please also note that every other Monday, I will be publishing a new class here called "Heresies and Their Remedies," beginning with Christological heresies that began almost immediately following the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The first of these classes will take place with my parishioners on Sunday, 11 February.  That Sunday (as usual) I'll podcast my sermon.  The next day, on 12 February (God-willing) I will podcast the first "Heresies and [...]

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14 01, 2018

Wedding Feast of Cana in the Old Testament

By |2019-04-05T04:25:04+00:00January 14th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This sermon was given on the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 2018.  The featured picture on the blog for this sermon is from a stained glass window at my basilica of residence downtown. A continued thanks for the music-bumpers of my sermons to the holy nuns of Ephesus.

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9 01, 2018

The Priest and Our Lady

By |2018-01-10T00:26:38+00:00January 9th, 2018|Theology|

I was staring at the Eucharist in my private chapel, and I marvelled at how the Eucharist came from me. And the Eucharist is Jesus. And Jesus is God. So...God came from me? I immediately knew there was something wrong about in my thinking. It was this: The Eucharist did not come from me. The best preposition is probably “through.” That is, the Eucharist came through me. The Catholic Church uses the verb to confect as seen in Canon Law: "Can. 900 §1. The minister who is able to confect the sacrament of the Eucharist in the person of Christ is a validly ordained priest alone.” This verb comes from [...]

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7 10, 2017

Mary: God’s First Love

By |2020-04-04T03:16:26+00:00October 7th, 2017|Theology|

Although the pro-life movement’s arguments can be proved from science as much as religion, one of the reasons that I am so involved in the pro-life movement is based on this piece of theology: God imagined every person as an unrepeatable blueprint long before their conception. Since God is the exclusive Creator of the Universe, and since God is in eternity (two philosophical necessities to a world with only One God) this means that God imagined the blueprint to each person’s genome long before an individual zygote was ever conceived. Of course, “imagined” and “before” are words that fail us, especially since we are speaking of a God who exists [...]

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